Don McLean – Crossroads
Learn how to play Don McLean – Crossroads note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
The song is accompanied on piano on the American Pie album. I’ve arranged it for solo guitar accompaniment in the style of Don McLean. It’s in the key of G, a key he used for many of his most famous songs, so we have a lot of examples to choose from of the different ways he approaches the chords in that key. I’ve borrowed liberally from those songs to choose the accompaniment pattern examples here.
The complete file contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 350 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.
The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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ken McCarthy says
Hi Jerry,
Have you given any thought to “Goodtime Charley’s Got the Blues” ? A nice piece with nice guitar.
Thanks for giving me so many delightful hours with my guitar and beautiful music.
Ken McCarthy